The courier, express, and postal industry is the largest segment of the transportation marketplace worldwide. This blog will provide a personal perspective on the challenges faced by firms in the industry as they serve an increasingly competitive market.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

In a recent story, Post and Parcel noted that Purolator, Canada's largest parcel carrier is about to double its presence in the United States and operate under a new name Purolator International. Over a year ago, this Blog posted a list of the U.S. markets that Purolator served for service within the United States. They were as follows

Buffalo, NY

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX

Itasca, IL

Los Angeles, CA

Farmingdale, NY

Philadelphia, PA

Raleigh-Durham, NC

Seattle, WA

Taylor, MI

The new service page lists a tenth market, Cleveland Ohio. With this addition, it is clear that Purolator is back-filling among northern U.S. markets and there are a number of obvious locations in New England, Wisconsin and Minnesota. in addition to additional locations in the states where it already has one distribution hub. In addition, its presence in North Carolina and Texas that its expansion will also move toward southern manufacturing and distribution centers that have operations or customers in Canada as well as within its other U.S. markets.

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Alan Robinson is the President of the Direct Communications Group and an associate of Analytic Business Services (AnaBus). He has over twenty years experience helping firms and government officials deal with the regulatory, policy, marketing, and management issues associated with changes in competition within transportation, parcel delivery and postal markets.
He can be reached at alan.robinson@directcomgroup.com